Comment by thr0w
6 days ago
> Nowadays carriages are split between 'normal' and 'quiet'... And the number of quiet carriages seems to have increased over time... It's like there are forces in society which try to prevent people with different experiences from sharing their experiences.
In the USA at least, people in the normal cars aren't "sharing their experiences". They're playing garbage music from their iPhone speakers (technically not allowed - happens anyway), trying to subdue their giggling/crying/screaming children, loudly conversing amongst themselves, etc. It's a zoo.
Not trying to pick apart your post, I liked reading it in general.
Yes you're right. The decreasing desire to socialize is somewhat leading the change and likely driving the increase in quiet carriages. It's a feedback cycle, like a lot of things. Smartphones are probably upstream of that trend but also a feedback cycle. Smartphone reduces need for interaction, lack of interaction erodes social skills which lead users to spend more time on their phones.
100%* prefer almost anything to sodcasting, facetime calls, and tiktok/youtube/mobile games at max volume
*rounded up